Employee Hiring Stats

Inc. Magazine logo - RF Cafe Inc. magazine published a few statistics relating to trends in employee hiring based on polling of employers. The upshot is that personal networking through current employees has greatly supplanted job websites and headhunters for finding quality employees. Here are a few of the numbers from hiring companies:

-  50% of have abandoned

   job boards.

-  98% use LinkedIn, 42%

   Twitter, 33% Facebook.

-  7% of applicants come

   from referrals but account

   for 40% of hires.

-  47% 3-year retention of

   employee referrals, but

   only 14% from job boards.

-  $1,200 average referral

   bonus to employees

Posted  May 2013